Word: adornment
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Tinsel and Christmas lights adorn the wall of the barbershop in the shot. Five of the six seats in the shop are empty. In the occupied chair, a young black woman in knee-high boots sits beneath a blower, halfway through the glossy magazine in her hand. A stand across the room holds two racks of periodicals, the top one stuffed with similar fashion publications and the lower one with worn hair magazines like Braids...
...Kuan-chung's Romance of the Three Kingdoms, Karl Marx's Das Kapital and several treatises on Chinese political philosophy. Instead of a Bible on the bedside table, there is a stack of Little Red Books. Photographs of Mao's various wives and mistresses adorn the coffee table. And, yes, there is even a Mao alarm clock...
...Turkish politician Recep Tayyip Erdogan does not look like a man so dangerous as to have been accused of "inciting religious hatred." His comfortably furnished offices in Ankara look more like a banker's suite than a fundamentalist's den. Impressionist prints adorn the walls, along with a portrait of Turkey's fiercely secular founder, Mustafa Kemal Ataturk. There isn't a prayer bead in sight. "I am a Muslim," the beardless Erdogan, 48, dressed in a pressed blue suit and red tie, said in a recent interview with Time. "But I believe in a secularist state...
When you make hats that look like Calder sculptures - skewed satellite dishes and demented spirals - you're clearly not aiming for the mass market. But over the past 10 years, Irish designer Philip Treacy has managed to build a business producing designs that adorn only a few heads - but turn others. Now he's embarking on the most commercial collection of his career, teaming up with the Andy Warhol Foundation to do a line of hats and bags that carry the artist's iconic images. "Warhol is a universal language," Treacy says. "We've gone for the most obvious choices...
...they’re really lucky—or maybe just, in Berkow’s words, really “shit-canned”—they can offer up a piece of themselves to the wall. Does Berkow’s own lingerie adorn the wall as well? That’s a house secret...